Perinatal Link
Delivered by Ouma Health

An MFM at every bedside that needs one.

More than 90% of U.S. counties have no maternal-fetal medicine specialist. Perinatal Link puts one on screen at your hospital in minutes, from the nation's largest tele-MFM practice.

Scope of service

Coverage across the whole pregnancy.

Antepartum

High-risk consults, co-management planning, and delivery planning for complicated pregnancies your team is watching.

Intrapartum

Live decision support when labor gets complicated: preterm labor, preeclampsia, hemorrhage risk, the 2 a.m. judgment calls.

Postpartum

Specialist backup for the fourth-trimester emergencies that follow high-risk deliveries.

Inpatient teleMFM

Built for the floors where high-risk shows up: L&D, postpartum, and your OB-ED.

Perinatal Link uses Ouma's inpatient MFM consultative service. It stands up a 24/7/365 program that supports your unit the way an on-staff MFM would, without the recruiting search you've already tried.

Labor & Delivery

Live co-management when a high-risk patient presents: triage decisions, delivery timing, mode-of-delivery planning, and management guidance for the OB or family physician at the bedside.

Postpartum

The riskiest days often come after the birth. Specialist support for hypertensive emergencies, hemorrhage follow-up, and the deteriorating postpartum patient your team is watching overnight.

OB emergencies

When a pregnant patient arrives in your ED, your clinicians get an MFM on screen while decisions still matter, not a transfer line and a hope.

The 2 a.m. calls we take

The calls that used to mean an automatic transfer.

Preterm labor at 31 weeks

Tocolysis, steroids, magnesium, and the honest answer on whether this patient can safely stay.

Preeclampsia with severe features

Blood pressure control, seizure prophylaxis, and delivery timing, planned with a specialist instead of alone.

PPROM far from term

Latency management and the transfer conversation, made with the receiving level in mind.

The diabetic patient off the rails

Insulin management in labor and the sugar swings that scare a small unit.

Hemorrhage risk identified late

Risk stratification, preparation, and staged escalation before the bleed, not during it.

Cardiac history in triage

Which symptoms are pregnancy and which are the heart, decided with subspecialty eyes on the case.

When keeping the patient is safe, we help you keep her. When it isn't, you transfer earlier, calmer, and better documented.

The standard of care

Risk-appropriate care is the national playbook. TeleMFM is how small hospitals run it.

ACOG and SMFM's levels-of-maternal-care framework asks every hospital that delivers to match its capabilities to its patients' risk, and to have maternal-fetal medicine consultation available as complexity rises.2 For Level I and II hospitals, the framework explicitly recognizes that MFM consultation can happen by telephone or telemedicine.2

In other words, the standard of care already assumes what Perinatal Link provides. What's been missing isn't permission. It's a program priced so hospitals your size can actually run it.

States are moving the same direction, with formal maternal level-of-care designations and site surveys in states like Texas.5 Documented specialist consultation is becoming the difference between defending your obstetric service line and explaining it.

Workforce math

You can't recruit your way out of this. Nobody can.

There are only a few thousand practicing MFMs in the United States, and they are overwhelmingly concentrated in major metros, tethered to large academic centers.1,4 For most community hospitals, the recruiting search isn't hard. It's mathematically unwinnable.

Locum coverage runs thousands of dollars a day when you can get it, and it leaves when the contract does.5 A telemedicine program gives you the same subspecialty, on your unit in minutes, on economics built for your delivery volume.

90.3%1 of counties have no practicing MFM
Nearly all4 MFMs practice in urban centers
27%4 lower maternal mortality associated with more MFMs per 10,000 births
For your physicians

Your physicians keep their patients. And get a partner.

Referral out has a cost: the patient, the delivery, and the continuity all leave. With TeleMFM consults, your OBs and family physicians manage more complexity locally with an MFM alongside them.

That's better for the patient, better for the physician, and better for the hospital's obstetric service line.

What a referral out takes with it
The patient
Drives hours to deliver with strangers
The delivery
And the revenue attached to it
The continuity of care
The relationship your team built
✓ With an MFM on the call, more of these stay home.
Ouma Health

The tele-MFM practice other programs measure themselves against.

Ouma Health is the nation's largest tele-MFM specialty practice, founded and led by maternal-fetal medicine physicians. Its CEO co-authored the workforce research that quantified the MFM desert problem this program exists to solve.1

This is not a staffing agency with a video app. It's a subspecialty practice that has spent years delivering MFM care into hospitals, clinics, FQHCs, and health plans, and fewer than 1 in 10 of its high-risk consults end up requiring in-person transfer of care.

✓100% board-certified MFM physicians
✓Clinicians licensed in all 50 states
✓24/7/365 coverage as the operating model, not an add-on
✓Hybrid telemedicine and in-person capability nationwide

Ouma also offers ultrasound interpretation, diabetes management, behavioral health, and more. oumahealth.com →

Sources
  1. Greiner, Haeri, et al. County-level MFM workforce and preterm birth. Am J Perinatol, 2025.
  2. ACOG / SMFM. Obstetric Care Consensus No. 9: Levels of Maternal Care. 2019, reaffirmed 2023.
  3. Texas maternal level-of-care designation program (25 Tex. Admin. Code §133).
  4. SMFM workforce statement.
  5. Locum MFM day-rate range (industry figure).
Better together

TeleMFM is half the program. When the baby needs a specialist too, the neonatologist is already on the call.

Explore TeleNeonatology →
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